Catherine Fowles
@ccfowles.bsky.social
✨not defined by labour✨
Neurospicy pansexual socialist 🇺🇸/🇬🇧
COVID conscious 😷 Cat Mom 😼😻
She / Her 🧬 🌍🌱🍉🖤🤎🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Neurospicy pansexual socialist 🇺🇸/🇬🇧
COVID conscious 😷 Cat Mom 😼😻
She / Her 🧬 🌍🌱🍉🖤🤎🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Catherine Fowles
@ccfowles.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Formerly: a scientist and a theatre producer
Exploring: what comes next
Current hyperfixations:
🔴⚪️⚫️David Lynch🔵⚫️
🧶 Knitting & Crochet
🎧 Creating Audio Drama
🎮 Games Producing
📊 Excel
📚 Reading my backlog of books
🎥 Movie Club - BFI Top 100 Critics’ List
🐈 My cats
🩷💛🩵Pansexual superheroes 🔥⚔️🧊
Exploring: what comes next
Current hyperfixations:
🔴⚪️⚫️David Lynch🔵⚫️
🧶 Knitting & Crochet
🎧 Creating Audio Drama
🎮 Games Producing
📊 Excel
📚 Reading my backlog of books
🎥 Movie Club - BFI Top 100 Critics’ List
🐈 My cats
🩷💛🩵Pansexual superheroes 🔥⚔️🧊
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What an amazing analogy of life under Trump!
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
What an amazing analogy of life under Trump!
lol.
Remember that they are actively trying to pass assisted dying bills so they don’t have to pay for the ongoing mass disabling event.
I don’t want to roll my health dice on those odds, so guess imma have to be a zealot!
Remember that they are actively trying to pass assisted dying bills so they don’t have to pay for the ongoing mass disabling event.
I don’t want to roll my health dice on those odds, so guess imma have to be a zealot!
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
lol.
Remember that they are actively trying to pass assisted dying bills so they don’t have to pay for the ongoing mass disabling event.
I don’t want to roll my health dice on those odds, so guess imma have to be a zealot!
Remember that they are actively trying to pass assisted dying bills so they don’t have to pay for the ongoing mass disabling event.
I don’t want to roll my health dice on those odds, so guess imma have to be a zealot!
This is why it is never “just” flu, y’all. Your “just a cold” could kill or disable somebody.
Please mask. Please stay home when sick. Please advocate for clean air everywhere, and especially in spaces where folx have to be (like hospitals or school or care homes or work or…)
Please mask. Please stay home when sick. Please advocate for clean air everywhere, and especially in spaces where folx have to be (like hospitals or school or care homes or work or…)
I literally watched a pt on an influenza outbreak ward at PLC, who did not have influenza when she arrived, expire in front of me. Other supposed pts in isolation in beds along the ward hallways. Seeing more pts with neuro complications of flu viruses too.
Home
not.at
December 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is why it is never “just” flu, y’all. Your “just a cold” could kill or disable somebody.
Please mask. Please stay home when sick. Please advocate for clean air everywhere, and especially in spaces where folx have to be (like hospitals or school or care homes or work or…)
Please mask. Please stay home when sick. Please advocate for clean air everywhere, and especially in spaces where folx have to be (like hospitals or school or care homes or work or…)
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
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I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
strangers are fighting to the death in my menchies over this pretty innocuous take and slinging devastating counterarguments like “what if I had to run away from a murderer” and “I like speeding”
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't want to be a "I'm not surprised" guy but covid made it clear that a substantial part of the population wants the freedom to do whatever they want even if it kills them and/or others
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covid never ended but everyone agreed to pretend it did and that the "summer flu" exists instead because they were tired of wearing masks. there are almost 500k scientific papers about how dangerous covid is and no one cares. that part of the population is like 99%
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
covid never ended but everyone agreed to pretend it did and that the "summer flu" exists instead because they were tired of wearing masks. there are almost 500k scientific papers about how dangerous covid is and no one cares. that part of the population is like 99%
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.
In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
www.avclub.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.
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All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
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There’s nothing wrong with healthy eating, exercise, sunlight & stress reduction.
They’re great ways to improve health.
The problem is the “wellness” community.
It’s always been a direct pipeline into eugenics.
They believe you can “healthy living” your way out of disability, and it’s not true
They’re great ways to improve health.
The problem is the “wellness” community.
It’s always been a direct pipeline into eugenics.
They believe you can “healthy living” your way out of disability, and it’s not true
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
There’s nothing wrong with healthy eating, exercise, sunlight & stress reduction.
They’re great ways to improve health.
The problem is the “wellness” community.
It’s always been a direct pipeline into eugenics.
They believe you can “healthy living” your way out of disability, and it’s not true
They’re great ways to improve health.
The problem is the “wellness” community.
It’s always been a direct pipeline into eugenics.
They believe you can “healthy living” your way out of disability, and it’s not true
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You can see this force of nature.
You can’t see flu and C19.
This is what I see when I see “normal” people doing “happy” things as a wave rolls in.
You can’t see flu and C19.
This is what I see when I see “normal” people doing “happy” things as a wave rolls in.
not much longer to go in 2025 so it’s time to start posting some of my favorite still photos from this chase season. Here is a black and white edit of a friend and fellow storm chaser standing in front of the Gary, South Dakota tornado on June 28th of this year
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
You can see this force of nature.
You can’t see flu and C19.
This is what I see when I see “normal” people doing “happy” things as a wave rolls in.
You can’t see flu and C19.
This is what I see when I see “normal” people doing “happy” things as a wave rolls in.
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Good morning.
A reminder that slavery disabled people. Also, prisons disable people. Dehumanization disables.
A reminder that slavery disabled people. Also, prisons disable people. Dehumanization disables.
Author's note for poem ☝🏾
It is written about Harriet Jacobs's 1861 "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", where she writes of her confinement:
"I lived in that little dismal hole… for nearly 7 years. My body still suffers from the effects of that long imprisonment, to say nothing of my soul."
It is written about Harriet Jacobs's 1861 "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", where she writes of her confinement:
"I lived in that little dismal hole… for nearly 7 years. My body still suffers from the effects of that long imprisonment, to say nothing of my soul."
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Broadview Press
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -
broadviewpress.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Good morning.
A reminder that slavery disabled people. Also, prisons disable people. Dehumanization disables.
A reminder that slavery disabled people. Also, prisons disable people. Dehumanization disables.
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If this doesn’t sum up these pandemic years perfectly. 😮💨
November 30, 2024 at 1:56 PM
If this doesn’t sum up these pandemic years perfectly. 😮💨
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If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.
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I feel like I've been struggling to articulate this for years, but I just figured it out: Musicians that can read music/are classically trained are wizards, and musicians that can't read music/learned by ear are sorcerers.
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I feel like I've been struggling to articulate this for years, but I just figured it out: Musicians that can read music/are classically trained are wizards, and musicians that can't read music/learned by ear are sorcerers.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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deep down, he believes we are all good chaps and he believes it hard enough that everyone wants to live up to it, just a little, just for him
December 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
deep down, he believes we are all good chaps and he believes it hard enough that everyone wants to live up to it, just a little, just for him
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This week my younger son decided to stop masking after being COVID-aware for 5+ years.
Despite the fact that he got rhabdomyolysis from his first infection (was hospitalized for 5 days), his Dad has just completed chemo, & his brother & Mum have had Long COVID for 5+ years.
And now he is sick -
Despite the fact that he got rhabdomyolysis from his first infection (was hospitalized for 5 days), his Dad has just completed chemo, & his brother & Mum have had Long COVID for 5+ years.
And now he is sick -
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This week my younger son decided to stop masking after being COVID-aware for 5+ years.
Despite the fact that he got rhabdomyolysis from his first infection (was hospitalized for 5 days), his Dad has just completed chemo, & his brother & Mum have had Long COVID for 5+ years.
And now he is sick -
Despite the fact that he got rhabdomyolysis from his first infection (was hospitalized for 5 days), his Dad has just completed chemo, & his brother & Mum have had Long COVID for 5+ years.
And now he is sick -
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NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
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Me, counselling someone.
We are going to have to get better at counselling young people with late stage cancer. We are going to see a lot more of this, as people don’t realise they are at risk, and to take symptoms seriously.
Sometimes diagnoses will be missed because we don’t expect them.
We are going to have to get better at counselling young people with late stage cancer. We are going to see a lot more of this, as people don’t realise they are at risk, and to take symptoms seriously.
Sometimes diagnoses will be missed because we don’t expect them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Me, counselling someone.
We are going to have to get better at counselling young people with late stage cancer. We are going to see a lot more of this, as people don’t realise they are at risk, and to take symptoms seriously.
Sometimes diagnoses will be missed because we don’t expect them.
We are going to have to get better at counselling young people with late stage cancer. We are going to see a lot more of this, as people don’t realise they are at risk, and to take symptoms seriously.
Sometimes diagnoses will be missed because we don’t expect them.
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Extremely bad: "The legislation, if enacted, would mean someone cannot be a U.S. citizen if they are also a citizen of another country."
www.newsweek.com/dual-citizen...
www.newsweek.com/dual-citizen...
Citizenship requirements to change for millions of Americans under new bill
Republican Senator Bernie Moreno has introduced a bill that would eliminate dual citizenship for Americans.
www.newsweek.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Extremely bad: "The legislation, if enacted, would mean someone cannot be a U.S. citizen if they are also a citizen of another country."
www.newsweek.com/dual-citizen...
www.newsweek.com/dual-citizen...
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Our criminal justice system operates under the theory of innocent til proven guilty. That's a decent starting point for disability accommodations
Will some bad actors take advantage of the system? Yes, but cracking down on everyone to prevent that will lead to a much worse outcome for all
Will some bad actors take advantage of the system? Yes, but cracking down on everyone to prevent that will lead to a much worse outcome for all
I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Our criminal justice system operates under the theory of innocent til proven guilty. That's a decent starting point for disability accommodations
Will some bad actors take advantage of the system? Yes, but cracking down on everyone to prevent that will lead to a much worse outcome for all
Will some bad actors take advantage of the system? Yes, but cracking down on everyone to prevent that will lead to a much worse outcome for all